Somewhere in Time

Release Date: 1992-03-01, Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Release Date: 2000-10-31, Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Release Date: 2000-10-31, Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested),

A young writer Christopher Reeve is mystified by the old portrait of a beautiful stage actress Jane Seymour from the turn of the century. He uses his mind through self-hynosis to turn back the years to the misty distant past and find the woman who has him spellbound. Soon they are in love and the time difference is only one of the problems to overcome. Scored by composer John Barry of James Bond fame.

DVDs. Somewhere in Time

Period Drama DVD - Christopher Reeve got away from Superman and related costume roles in this dramatic fantasy film, adapted from Richard Matheson's 1960s vintage novel Bid Time Return. A young playwright, Richard Collier (Reeve), is approached by an elderly woman on the occasion of his first triumph in 1972 -- all she says to him is "Come back to me" and leaves him with a watch that contains a picture of a ravishing young woman. Eight years later, he visits the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island and comes upon a photograph of the same woman, whom he discovers was an actress who made an appearance at the hotel in 1912. He becomes obsessed with the image and what the woman -- who died the night she approached him in 1972 -- meant by what she said. In a manner somewhat reminiscent of the film Laura, he falls in love with her and her image as he learns more about her life and career. Then he comes upon the suggestion of a professor at his former college that time travel may, in fact, be possible, using an extreme fo